Composing-stick



(No Model.)

W. H. GULDING.

- GOMPOSING STICK. No. 278,700, Patented June 5,1883.

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WILLIAM GOLDING, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMPOSING-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,700, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed January 26,1882. Renewed September 18, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. GOLDING, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Composing-Sticks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention consists, mainly, in constructing a composing-stick in such manner that the adjustable knee of the same may be rigidly secured at each end 'to the base portion of the stick, so that the springing of. one end of the knee more than the other by tight Spacing is rendered impossible.

It consists, further, in certain details of construction, which, in connection with the fore going, will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved composingstick; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, detail sectional views, and Fig. 4 a reversed plan view of the same.

To enable others skilled in the art to make my improved composing-stick, I will proceed to describe fully the construetion of the same.

A represents the base portion of the stick, constructed generally in the usual well-known manner.

a represents an elongated opening or slot in the back plate of the stick, and a a similar opening in the bottom plate.

B represents the knee, constructed generally in the usual well-known or other proper manner.

72 represents a threaded socket extending in a horizontal direction, and b a threaded socket extending in a vertical direction.

C 0 represent screws, by means of which the knee'is screwed to the base portion, as shown.

0 0 represent washers interposed between the heads of the screws and the bearing-faces of the base portion, as shown. These washers are reamed for the purpose of countersinking the screw-heads, so that their outer surfaces may be flush with the outer surfaces of the washers, as shown.

By means of the described construction it is possible to Secure the knee, after the Same has been properly adjusted, rigidly at each end to the base portion, so that it is impossible to spring the same at one end more than the other by tight spacing. By means of the Special construction, also, the Stick is without objectionable projections from the back or bottom of the stick. 0

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A composing-stick having a base portion, A, with slots (0 a, an adjustable knee, B, with sockets b b, and securing-Screws C c, as described.

This specification signed and witnessed this 18th day of January, 1882.

ROBERT HUMPHREYS, HENRY Y. Wreem. 

